Gary Lineker tells Leicester to snub Graham Potter and hire former England boss

Gary Lineker has named who helium thinks should beryllium the caller Leicester City manager pursuing the sacking of Steve Cooper connected Sunday.

Cooper has near the King Power conscionable 5 months aft replacing Enzo Maresca, with the nine 16th successful the Premier League and conscionable a constituent supra the relegation zone.

His past crippled successful complaint was Saturday’s 2-1 location defeat to Maresca’s Chelsea, aft which his players were filmed wildly partying successful a nightclub successful Copenhagen.

First-team manager Ben Dawson volition instrumentality complaint for now, with Leicester acceptable to question to Brentford this Saturday, portion a big of large names person been linked with the managerial vacancy.

Graham Potter is the aboriginal favourite having been retired of enactment since leaving Chelsea past year, portion erstwhile Manchester United bosses David Moyes and Ruud van Nistlerooy are the different frontrunners.

Former Foxes striker Lineker likes these options, saying connected The Rest is Football podcast: ‘The archetypal rumour I heard was David Moyes which would surely beryllium a harmless brace of hands. He’s been astir the artifact and would beryllium a harmless appointment.

‘If you look elsewhere idiosyncratic similar Potter possibly. He’s been doing the media rounds which suggests helium wants to get backmost successful the crippled arsenic soon arsenic helium can.’

But the England fable and Match of the Day big has different sanction successful caput for the job: ‘I’d spell with Lee Carsley.

‘I deliberation he’s truly got thing and I deliberation there’s a small spot of a reluctance successful the Premier League opposed to possibly different leagues and I deliberation with imaginable exceptions – Brentford, Brighton, who person brought successful young managers that they deliberation person got thing astir them, a existent coaching quality that I deliberation is determination and you instrumentality a spot of a punt.

‘Now, it’s hard with a nine that’s evidently going to beryllium warring relegation. It volition beryllium a pugnacious archetypal managerial job, successful presumption of a nine broadside for idiosyncratic similar Carsley.

‘But the mode that England players responded to him, you could archer that they respected him arsenic a coach, that they thought that helium had bully ideas. We thought helium was truly imaginative and brave.

‘So if it was down to me, which it’s categorically not, I would perchance deliberation of idiosyncratic similar that, if they don’t spell down the tried and trusted experienced way of idiosyncratic similar David Moyes.’

Carsley was precocious propelled into the spotlight aft becoming interim England manager pursuing Gareth Southgate’s resignation.

He won 5 of his six games successful charge, winning promotion backmost to the apical tier of the Nations League successful the process, and earning the respect of the Three Lions players.

The 50-year-old was tipped to get the occupation full-time but the FA plumped for Thomas Tuchel, with Carsley heading backmost to the U21s with whom helium won the European Championships successful 2023.

At nine level, helium has lone ever held caretaker roles astatine Coventry, Brentford and Birmingham, and his inexperience would marque him a risky – yet breathtaking – appointment.

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